Innovation in Small Professional Practices in the Built Environment

From the book’s Foreword by Trevor Mole, Managing Director,
Property Tectonics; President of the European Association of
Building Surveyors and Construction Experts:

‘Shu-Ling and Martin have built on their research work
and that of others to produce an understandable and readable
insight into innovation in small professional service firms. They
have successfully unravelled the complex behavioural and
organisational forces taking place and created a framework to help
practitioners understand the issues and to fashion the right
environment in which to foster innovation and deliver economic
value.’

Small professional practices in the built environment are
crucial to the success and long-term viability of the design,
construction and property industries. This research-based book
addresses the urgent need to better understand the nature and
process of innovation in these important firms.

The authors offer an analysis of both why and how
innovation is a key competitive factor for small professional
practices in the built environment. As these practices are located
in different business environments and behave in different ways to
other types of industry firms, the context-specific methodology to
design, implement and assess innovation in small professional
practices presented in this book will appeal to researchers and
practitioners in surveying and design.

Innovation in Small Professional Practices in the Built
Environment makes a significant contribution to an
underdeveloped area of innovation by offering new theoretical and
practical insights and models grounded in results from a 22-month
case study of a small professional practice.

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